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coast to Lincoln, is 4 to 8 feet high, and has small 

 white flowers in drooping racemes, which are 3 to 5 

 inches long on the ends of the branches. 



1. Wild Hydrangea. (Hydrangea arborescens, 

 Linn.) — A smooth shrub, 2 to 5 feet high, gro wing- 

 along streams and on mountain and hill sides of the 

 Upper and Middle Districts. The leaves are 3 to 5 

 inches long, heart-shaped, pointed, toothed. The 

 flowers are whitish, in flat-topped clusters, some of 

 those on the margin being large and showy like those 

 of the cultivated Hydrangea. 



2. Snowy Hydrangea. (H. radiata, Walt.) — 

 Found only on the mountains west of the Blue 

 Ridge from Yancey to Georgia. North of this it has 

 not, I think, been detected. It is from 3 to 6 or 8 

 feet high. The leaves are heart-shaped, 4 to 6 inches 

 long, the underside clothed with a thick, silvery- 

 white down. The barren flowers, which give this 

 genus the peculiarity for which it is admired, are in 

 this species found only around the border of the flat- 

 topped cluster, but are said to become much more 

 abundant in cultivation. They are of a pure white, 

 an inch or more broad. This pretty shrub would be 

 much prized in gardens, if there were not some more 

 showy species in cultivation. 



1. Syringa. (Philadelphus grandiflorus, Willd.) 

 — This very ornamental shrub, now common in our 

 yards and gardens, prized for its graceful, slender 

 branches and snow-white flowers, does not appear to 

 be abundant in this State. I am acquainted with 



